PT-2012-5467
CVE-2012-4536
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Published
2012-11-21
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Updated
2024-06-15
Description by
CVSS 2.0
2.1
LowMetricsAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Xen version 2.2
Description
The issue allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (Xen crash) via a crafted
pirq value that triggers an out-of-bounds read in the domain pirq to emuirq and physdev unmap pirq functions.Recommendations
For Xen version 2.2, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the
domain pirq to emuirq and physdev unmap pirq functions until a patch is available.
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